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  2. Rock Island Rockets - Wikipedia

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    The Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad Rockets were lightweight, streamlined diesel-electric passenger trains built by the Budd Company. These six trains were the first streamlined equipment purchased by the Rock Island, as well as being its first diesel-powered passenger trains. Four of the trains consisted of three cars each, the other ...

  3. Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad - Wikipedia

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    The original Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad (CRI&P RW, sometimes called Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railway) [1] (reporting marks CRI&P, RI, ROCK) was an American Class I railroad. It was also known as the Rock Island Line, or, in its final years, The Rock. At the end of 1970, it operated 7,183 miles of road on 10,669 miles of ...

  4. Northrop Grumman - Wikipedia

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    Northrop Grumman Corporation is an American multinational aerospace and defense company. With 95,000 employees [3] and an annual revenue in excess of $30 billion, it is one of the world's largest weapons manufacturers and military technology providers.

  5. Museum of Science and Industry (Chicago) - Wikipedia

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    Designated. November 1, 1995. The Griffin Museum of Science and Industry (MSI), formerly known as the Museum of Science and Industry, is a science museum located in Chicago, Illinois, in Jackson Park, in the Hyde Park neighborhood between Lake Michigan and The University of Chicago. It is housed in the Palace of Fine Arts from the 1893 World's ...

  6. History of Boeing - Wikipedia

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    In 1909, William E. Boeing, a wealthy lumber entrepreneur who studied at Yale University, became fascinated with airplanes after seeing one at the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition in Seattle. In 1910 he bought the Heath Shipyard, a wooden boat manufacturing facility at the mouth of the Duwamish River, which would become his first airplane ...

  7. United Launch Alliance - Wikipedia

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    Website. ulalaunch.com. United Launch Alliance, LLC (ULA) is an American launch service provider formed in December 2006 as a joint venture between Lockheed Martin Space and Boeing Defense, Space & Security. The company designs, assembles, sells and launches rockets, but the company subcontracts out the production of rocket engines and solid ...

  8. List of spacecraft manufacturers - Wikipedia

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    4/6. manufacturer of LauncherOne air-launched launch vehicle. Blue Origin. United States. manufacturer of the New Shepard suborbital rocket and New Glenn. Independence-X Aerospace. Malaysia. manufacturer of DNLV launch vehicle. Borneo SubOrbitals.

  9. Blue Origin - Wikipedia

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    The company has continued to expand its Seattle-area offices and rocket production facilities since 2016, purchasing an adjacent 11,000 m 2 (120,000 sq ft)-building. [50] In 2017, the company filed permits to build a new 21,900 m 2 (236,000 sq ft) warehouse complex and an additional 9,560 m 2 (102,900 sq ft) of office space. [ 51 ]